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Stress questions are designed to evaluate your emotional reflexes, creativity, or attitudes while you're under pressure. Since off-the-wall or confrontational questions tend to jolt your equilibrium, or put you in a defensive posture, the best way to handle them is to stay calm and give carefully considered answers.

Resume questions require accurate, objective answers, since your resume consists of facts which tend to be quantifiable (and verifiable). Try to avoid answers which exaggerate your achievements, or appear to be opinionated, vague, or egocentric.

An alternative to the STAR method is a way of answering resume questions that I developed call the . I find the PARADE method, while a little harder to remember, is extremely thorough in eliciting the KEY facts behind a candidates career accomplishments.

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